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Enjoyed your WEB site on stucco. TOLL Brothers built a house
during
1999 here in Chicago, IL. and closed in Aug. 2000. The contract
called
for REAL stucco and TOLL marketing told us we were getting real
stucco.
After we developed mold in the house and tested positive (50,60-90%)
moisture
on the shealthing (OSB), especially at the windows, we discovered we
got
less than real stucco. We got something that was 2 coat,
what
they called hard coat with STO 1.5 Lit EIFS coating and all the trim is
polystyrene, fibreglass mess with the EIFS coating (STO Lit 1.5).
Do we have real stucco?
No, you got suckered by
Toll Brothers.
The material you have is
called "one-coat stucco"
or some call it hard coat "stucco" but it is not.
Real stucco is portland
cement lime and sand,
including the finish coat. What you have now is a synthetic finish made
from acrylic paint and plastic sand.
This synthetic finish
allows water to enter the
wall, but not escape.
The details are syrofoam
EIFS that can be easily
torn off with your bear hands.
Here in Virginia it is fraud
to sell a
house as stucco when it isn't, but people do it anyway. Fraud is a
criminal
act, isn't it?
Toll Brothers just
replaced the EIFS on over
140 houses with one-coat
made by Sonneborn, with the same synthetic
finish
that rotted the houses
in the first place. The Toll Brothers
homeowners
won their lawsuit based
on the fact that houses sold with "stucco
details"
had no stucco details,
but foam stuck on the wall. What were the
foam
details replaced with?
More foam stuck on the wall. They
got
screwed twice by the same people.
You may try suing, after all you are a
victim
of fraud. |